HBO Max Pulls ‘Gone With the Wind’ to Add ‘Denouncement.’ This is asinine. Frankly, HBO Max, we don’t give a damn.
The company said that when “Gone With the Wind” returns to the recently launched streaming service, it will include “historical context and a denouncement of those very depictions, but will be presented as it was originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed.”
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Using this twisted logic, all of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain for you leftards) works are subject to censorship.
Since when does H.B.O. get to decide what I get to watch, in fact why do any of these fucking liberal corporations get to decide? Maybe we need to tell the Pantifa/BLM crowd that H.B.O. does not support them and hates their guts, let them burn down H.B.O.
I always thought this movie was vastly overrated.
Liberalism is a Mental Disorder.
HBO is Humble Bullsheet Offerings,
I run into this issue all the time because I republish old books. Take Sut Lovingood’s Yarns for example: it’s a collection of humorous stories written in the mid-19th century by a man named George Harris, and some of them are funny as hell, but unfortunately Harris was a Southerner and his antebellum ethnic bigotry leaks through and ruins some of the stories by insulting our modern sensibilities. What am I supposed to do? Pretend the book never existed? Edit out all the words that offend modern sensibilities? I don't think that would be the right course. These things existed, and I don't think it hurts to enjoy an old work of art from a less-enlightened era while at the same time recognizing its flaws. In fact I think it's good to experience an old work of art and see how things have changed. It gives you perspective.
"a less-enlightened era"
I shudder to think what people will think of our era in a 100 years. "They erased history because some people were butt hurt."
this feels kinda 'book publisher promo-ey' to me.. ...